Alcohol increases the risk of serveral forms of cancer. This may be attributable to the fact that alcohol disturbs certain vital metabolic processes. Vitamin B6 and folic acid, however, seem to be able to repair the damage.

The B-vitamin folic acid may be able to counteract osteoporosis. This is the result of both an American and a Dutch population study that were simultaneously published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

A cold is regarded as a trite but nontheless irksome suffering. Colds affect adults averagely twice a year and children three times as often. Colds are regarded as non-preventable and non-treatable, and they cost the society billions of pounds every year.

There are more and more indications that vitamin D is an effective weapon against cancer. An american study indicates that high levels of vitamin D is a great advantage when suffering from lung cancer.

A world renowned vitamin D researcher has initiated a study on a very simple treatment for prostate cancer. If it lives up to its expectations, it will mean a revolution in the treatment for the second most common cancer type in men.

The warnings against direct sunlight in the summer should be taken with a grain of salt. The vitamin D synthesized in the skin in the wonderful sunshine, prevents, amongst other things, weakening of the heart, if we look at the latest research.

Campaigns against skin cancer can have the adverse effect that people become so afraid of the sun that they are exposed to too little sunlight and thereby produce too little vitamin D with the consequent risk of developing serious diseases.

It is astounding that we are still discussing nature's purpose of vitamin E. It is actually difficult to find obvious deficiency symptoms in humans. However, that the vitamin is highly important is still certain.

About one out of every two diabetics has a five times larger than average risk of dying from heart disease. This risk can be cut in half by vitamin E. This is a well justified theory which is now being tested in a large Israeli study.

There are at least eight different types of vitamin E, but we only get one type in vitamin supplements. Meanwhile, another type counteracts arthrosclerosis and yet another is effective in lowering the cholesterol levels of diabetics.

A study suggests that mortality in people taking over 400 IU of Vitamin E a day is increased. However, the study has a number of very important limitations which mean that sweeping generalisations should not be made.

The need of many vitamins increases with age. Deficiency has similar effects as radioactivity and causes mutations, decreased energy production, cancer, and aging phenomena - according to one of the world’s leading nutrition scientists.

Lung cancer patients, who take supplements of vitamins and minerals after receiving the diagnosis small cell lung cancer, live considerably longer and have a higher quality of living than those who do not take supplements.

Many vitamins in our diet are particularly important to our skin. These vitamins are more effective to the skin when they are part of the creams we smear onto our skin. Check the vitamin content in the contents declaration the next time you buy a cream.

Vigorous and exhausting physical exercise is not beneficial to your health. The reason for this is that strenuous exercise results in damages to both the DNA (hereditary material) and the cell walls through the process of oxidation.